Dozens of people crowded around tables at an Ottawa bar recently, aiming to settle who knows the most about pop culture’s favourite bug-eyed, bright yellow family.
Local Simpson trivia club part of larger network
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Ottawa Pubic Library to receive provincial funding for food literacy
The Ottawa Public Library was chosen as one of 10 Ontario libraries to receive a grant from the provincial government that will go towards funding food literacy programs within the city. Over the next two years the library will accept $186,890 to go towards these programs aimed at providing information about healthy eating for the Ottawa public.
Winterlude gets buggy with ice beetles
Dave Scharf, Centretown News
The Canadian Museum of Nature commissioned the Canadian Ice Carvers Society to sculp a giant stag beetle for Winterlude to promote its ongoing Bugs: Outside the Box exhibit.Standing tall above Winterlude visitors towers a giant stag beetle with its limbs stretched out to its side, glistening as the warm winter sun catches the water melting off of it.
City retailers worried about Glebe favouritism
Deanne Pittman, Centretown News
The Glebe BIA wants special permission to keep stores open on statutory holidays.A bid by the Glebe Business Improvement Area to win municipal approval for its stores to open on holidays is raising concerns among other retailers in downtown Ottawa about favouritism and unfairness around holiday closing rules.